Something else I just realized. It being weird that Spinel just conveniently found her injector/scythe have been discussed a lot, but something else just came to mind while I was listening to "Other Friends" again (which is such a great song):
I get that Amy/the rest of the Crystal Gems are supposed to be rusty (with Amethyst literally saying as much in "Other Friends"), since it's basically been 2 years since they fought White/did any fighting at all really. But even so, to the best I can tell... it doesn't seem like Spinel was a combat gem at all/did any fighting at all ever before she decided to head to Earth (and even if she had fought when she was Pink Diamond's gem in some capacity, well, she would still be 6000 years out of practice herself). So rusty or no, it's definitely weird how Spinel not only took on the main Crystal Gems all at once, not only did she beat them, but they weren't able to even land a hit on her/they were all poofed at once with one hit of the scythe she had to have just gotten and had no practice with.
It's a super minor thing, and just conveniences so that the movie can have a plot and happen at all and all that, but it's just one more thing that would have been easily fixed if say Spinel had figured it all out and snapped say I dunno 500 years ago or something and plotting and training all that time herself and Steven's message was just the straw that broke the camel's back/what made her finally decide to act now or something.
Like a minor thing for sure, but it's so weird how much it being Steven's message that made Spinel snap makes messy and how moving the timeline even a little bit earlier would fix all that. I get that that's probably runtime related and them having to condense some stuff to get it all to fit into the timeslot, and I can respect that, but it's still nibbling at me a bit the more I think about it (especially since they went out of their way to explain the Crystal Gems being rusty... which logically would apply even more so to Spinel herself, but yet...).
